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John Sarbanes: “on more than one amendment it has been said that for 8 years we had a Democratic President and we didn't do anything…”

On the recordMay 22, 2001
on more than one amendment it has been said that for 8 years we had a Democratic President and we didn't do anything about this issue. We spent most of those 8 years working ourselves out of the deficit box into which we have been placed by the previous administrations. It is only now when we have some surpluses that we can start talking about doing something about these issues. How were you going to do something when you had a deficit? This is a very worthy cause for using some of those surpluses that we now have. I urge support for the Reid amendment.
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John Sarbanes
Democratic · Maryland
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Discussing the use of budget surpluses during a debate on amendments.

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